A Women's Health and Gender- Specific Medicine Bibliography

Alcohol

Alcohol Alert - "Are Women More Vulnerable to Alcohol's Effects?" National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism No. 46 December 1999

Fernandez-Sola J, Estruch R, Nicolas JM, Pare JC, Sacanella E, Antunez E et al. Comparison of alcoholic cardiomyopathy in women versus men. Am J Cardiol 1997; 80(4):481-485.

Frezza M, Di Padova C, Pozzato G, Terpin M, Baraona E, Lieber CS. High blood alcohol levels in women. The role of decreased gastric alcohol dehydrogenase activity and first-pass metabolism N Engl J Med 1990; 322(2):95-99.

Tuyns AJ., Pequignot G. Greater risk of ascitic cirrhosis in females in relation to alcohol consumption. International Journal of Epidemiology 1984; 13(1):53-57.

Anesthesiology

Gan TJ, Glass PS, Sigl J, Sebel P, Payne F, Rosow C et al. Women emerge from general anesthesia with propofol/alfentanil/nitrous oxide faster than men. Anesthesiology 1999; 90(5):1283-1287.

Xue FS, An G, Liao X, Zou Q, Luo LK. The pharmacokinetics of vecuronium in male and female patients. Anesth Analg 1998; 86(6):1322-1327.

Brain and Behavior

de Courten-Myers G. The human cerebral cortex: gender differences in structure and function J Neuropathol Exp Neurol 1999; 58(3):217-26.

McGlone J. Sex differences in the cerebral organization of verbal functions in patients with unilateral brain lesions. Brain 1977; 100(4):775-793.

Nishizawa S, Benkelfat C, Young SN, Leyton M, Mzengeza S, de Montigny C et al. Differences between males and females in rates of serotonin synthesis in human brain. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1997; 94(10):5308-5313.

Shaywitz BA, Shaywitz SE, Pugh KR, Constable RT, Skudlarski P, Fulbright RK et al. Sex differences in the functional organization of the brain for language. Nature 1995; 373(6515):607-609.

Tamminga CA. Gender and schizophrenia. J Clin Psychiatry 1997; 58 Suppl 15:33-37.

Cardiovascular Disease

American Heart Association - Physician's Information - Coronary Heart Disease and Stroke Remain the Leading Causes of Death of Women in America.

Cardiovascular Disease in Women: A Statement for Healthcare Professionals From the American Heart Association (Click on link at bottom of page).

Charney P (ed). Coronary Artery Disease in Women: What all Physicians Need to Know. Philadelphia, American College of Physicians, 1999.

Couillard C, Mauriege P, Prud'homme D, Nadeau A, Tremblay A, Bouchard C et al. Plasma leptin concentrations: gender differences and associations with metabolic risk factors for cardiovascular disease. Diabetologia 1997; 40(10):1178-1184.

Ebert SN, Liu XK, Woosley RL. Female gender as a risk factor for drug-induced cardiac arrhythmias: evaluation of clinical and experimental evidence. J Womens Health 1998; 7(5):547-557.

Ergul A, Shoemaker K, Puett D, Tackett RL. Gender differences in the expression of endothelin receptors in human saphenous veins in vitro. J Pharmacol Exp Ther 1998; 285(2):511-517.

Esmore D, Keogh A, Spratt P, Jones B, Chang V. Heart transplantation in females. J Heart Lung Transplant 1991; 10(3):335-341.

Fernandez-Sola J, Estruch R, Nicolas JM, Pare JC, Sacanella E, Antunez E et al. Comparison of alcoholic cardiomyopathy in women versus men. Am J Cardiol 1997; 80(4):481-485.

Goldschmidt-Clermont PJ, Schulman SP, Bray PF, Chandra NC, Grigoryev D, Dise KR et al. Refining the treatment of women with unstable angina--a randomized, double-blind, comparative safety and efficacy evaluation of Integrelin versus aspirin in the management of unstable angina. Clin Cardiol 1996; 19(11):869-874.

Hochman JS, Tamis JE, ThompsonTD, et al. Sex, Clinical Presentation, and Outcome in Patients with Acute Coronary Syndromes.N Engl J Med 1999; 341(4):226-32.

Kawano H, Motoyama T, Kugiyama K, Hirashima O, Ohgushi M, Fujii H et al. Gender difference in improvement of endothelium-dependent vasodilation after estrogen supplementation. J Am Coll Cardiol 1997; 30(4):914-919.

Makkar RR, Fromm BS, Steinman RT, Meissner MD, Lehmann MH. Female gender as a risk factor for torsades de pointes associated with cardiovascular drugs. JAMA 1993; 270(21):2590-2597.

Merri M, Benhorin J, Alberti M, Locati E, Moss AJ. Electrocardiographic quantitation of ventricular repolarization. Circulation 1989; 80(5):1301-1308.

Stumpf W. Steroid hormones and the cardiovascular system: Direct actions of estradiol, progesterone, testosterone, gluco- and mineralcorticoids, and solriold {vitamin D] on central nervous regulatory and peripheral tissues. Experientia 1990; 46:13-25.

Vaccarino V, Parsons L, Every NR, Barron HV, Krumholz HM. Sex-Based Differences in Early Mortality after Myocardial Infarction. N Engl J Med 1999; 341(4):217-25.

Wexler LF. Studies of Acute Coronary Syndromes in Women -- Lessons for Everyone (editorial). N Engl J Med 1999; 341(4):275-276.

Wingate S. Cardiovascular anatomy and physiology in the female. Crit Care Nurs Clin North Am 1997; 9(4):447-452.

Communication

Elderkin-Thompson V, Waitzkin H. Differences in clinical communication by gender. J Gen Intern Med 1999; 14(2):112-121.

Gender-Fair Teaching is Good Teaching by the West Virginia University Center for Women's Studies and Council for Women's Concerns, 1997.

Curriculum Development

Atkins KM, Roberts AE, Cochran N. How Medical Students Can Bring about Curricular Change. 1998; 73(11): 1173-1176.

AAMC Medical School Objectives Writing Group. Learning Objectives for Medical Student Education - Guidelines for Medical Schools: Report I of the Medical School Objectives Project. Academic Medicine 1999; 74(1):13-18.

Kwolek D, et al. Gender Differences in Clinical Evaluation: Narrowing the Gap with Women's Health Clinical Skills Workshops. Acad Med, 1998; 73:S88-90.

Kwolek DS, Griffith CH, Blue AV. Using Clinical Skills Workshops to Teach Complex Assessment Skill in Women's Health. Teaching and Learning In Med 1199;11(2) 105-109.

Magrane DM, McIntyre-Seltman K.Women’s Health Care Issues for Medical Students: An Educational Proposal. Women’s Health Issues. 1996; 6(4):183-191.

Nieman LZ, Rutenberg CL, Levison SP, Kuzma MA, Rudnitsky G, Beck-Weiss L. Designing Evaluations for a Women’s Health Education Program. Journal of Women’s Health 1997; 6(1):63-71.

Phillips S. The Social Context of Women's Health: Goals and Objectives for Medical Education. Can Med Assoc J 1995;152(4):507-511.

Robertson PA, Brown JS, Flanagan TA, et al. The Women's Health Curriculum by a problem-based learning method for medical students at the University of California, San Francisco American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 1997; 176(6):1368-1373.

Searle J. Introduction of a new curriculum in women's health in medical education: A framework for change. Women's Health Issues 1998; 8(6):382-388.

Diabetes

Giannoukakis N, Deal C, Paquette J, Goodyer CG, Polychronakos C. Parental genomic imprinting of the human IGF2 gene. Nat Genet 1993; 4(1):98-101.

Julier C, Hyer RN, Davies J, Merlin F, Soularue P, Briant L et al. Insulin-IGF2 region on chromosome 11p encodes a gene implicated in HLA- DR4-dependent diabetes susceptibility. Nature 1991; 354(6349):155-159

Diversity Issues

Brian D. Smedley, Adrienne Y. Stith, and Alan R. Nelson, Editors, Committee on Understanding and Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care, Board on Health Sciences Policy. Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care. 2002. Available in full text at: http://www.nap.edu/catalog/10260.html

Brian D. Smedley and Adrienne Y. Stith (Institute of Medicine); Lois Colburn (Association of American Medical Colleges); Clyde H. Evans (Association of Academic Health Centers): The Right Thing to Do, The Smart Thing to Do: Enhancing Diversity in Health Professions Summary of the Symposium on Diversity in Health Professions in Honor of Herbert W. Nickens, M.D., 2001
Available in full text at : http://www.nap.edu/catalog/10186.html 

Townsend M, Wallick M, Cambre K. Follow-Up Survey of Support Services for Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Students. Acad Med, September 1996.

Environmental Health

Brown EA, Shelley ML, Fisher JW. A pharmacokinetic study of occupational and environmental benzene exposure with regard to gender. Risk Anal 1998; 18(2):205-213.

Faculty Development

Benz E, et al. Increasing Academic Internal Medicine's Investment in Female Faculty. Amer. J. of Med., 1998; 105:459-63.

Carr, P., et al. The Relation of Family Responsibilities and Sex to the Productivity and Career Satisfaction of Medical Faculty. Annals of Internal Medicine, 1998; 129:532-538.

Crittenden, A. The Price of Motherhood: Why the most important job in the world is still the least valued. Henry Holt, 2001.

Estrich, S. Sex and Power. Penguin, 2000.

Frank E, Hudgins P. Academic Versus Non-academic Women Physicians: Data from the Women Physicians' Health Study. Acad. Med. 1999;74:553-556.

Heid I, et al. Increasing the Proportion of Women in Academic Medicine: One Institution's Response. Mayo Clinic Proc. 1999; 74:113-119.

Kvaerner K, et al. Female Medical Leadership: Cross Sectional Study. Brit. Med. J., 1999; 318:91-4.

Limacher M, et al. The ACC Professional Life Survey: Career Decisions of Women and Men in Cardiology. J. Am. Coll. Cardiology, 1998; 32:827-835.

McElvaine, R. Eve's Seed: Biology, the sexes and the course of history. McGraw-Hill, 2001

MIT Study of Women Faculty in Science. MIT Faculty Newsletter, March 1999

Reardon, K. The Secret Handshake: Mastering the politics of the business inner circle. Doubleday, 2001.

Gastrointestinal / Hepatology

Cannon JG, St Pierre BA. Gender differences in host defense mechanisms. J Psychiatr Res 1997; 31(1):99-113.

Corrao G, Arico S, Zambon A, Torchio P, di Orio F. Female sex and the risk of liver cirrhosis. Collaborative Groups for the Study of Liver Diseases in Italy. Scand J Gastroenterol 1997; 32(11):1174-1180.

Marino IR, Doyle HR, Aldrighetti L, Doria C, McMichael J, Gayowski T et al. Effect of donor age and sex on the outcome of liver transplantation. Hepatology 1995; 22(6):1754-1762.

Northcutt A, Camillen M, Mayer E, Drossman D, Dukes G. Alosetron, A 5HT-receptor antagonist, is effective in the treatment of female irritable bowel syndrome patients. Gastroenterology 1998; 114(4):A812.

Tuyns AJ., Pequignot G. Greater risk of ascitic cirrhosis in females in relation to alcohol consumption. International Journal of Epidemiology 1984; 13(1):53-57.

Gender-based Medicine / Sex-based Biology

American Medical Association. Women’s Health: Sex-and Gender-Based Differences in Health and Disease. A Report of the Council on Scientific Affairs: Williams, MA, Chair. CSA Report 4-I-00. (URL: http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/article/2036-4946.html)  

Curriculum Committee on Women’s Health and Gender-Specific Medicine, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Core Competencies in Women’s Health and Gender-Specific Medicine for Medical Students. Adopted by the Education Coordinating Committee 6/19/01. (URL: http://www.womenshealth.uc.edu)

 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health.  Agenda for Research on Women’s Health for the 21^st Century. A Report of the Task Force on the NIH Women’s Health Research Agenda for the 21^st Century, Volume 1, Executive Summary. Bethesda, MD. NIH Publication No. 99-4385, 1999.  (URL: http://www4.od.nih.gov/orwh/report.pdf)

U.S. General Accounting Office. Women's Health: Women Sufficiently Represented in New Drug Testing, but FDA Oversight Needs Improvement. July 6, 2001.
Report No. GAO-01-754  (URL: http://www.gao.gov)

Thompson PM, Wolf JL. The Sexual Revolution in Science: What Gender-Based Research is Telling Us. Journal of Investigative Medicine 1999; 47(3):106-113.

Wiseman TM, Pardue ML(eds.). Exploring the Biological Contributions to Human Health: Does Sex Matter? A Report of the Committee on Understanding the Biology of Sex and Gender Differences, Institute of Medicine, Washington, DC, National Academy Press, 2001. (URL: http://www.nap.edu/books/0309072816/html)

Hematology

Cheney CL, Lenssen P, Aker SN, Cunningham BA, Gauvreau JM, Darbinian J et al. Sex differences in nitrogen balance following marrow grafting for leukemia. J Am Coll Nutr 1987; 6(3):223-230.

Imbach P, Fuchs A, Berchtold W, Arnet B, Stupnicki A, Angst R et al. Boys but not girls with T-lineage acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) are different from children with B-progenitor ALL. Population-based data results of initial prognostic factors and long-term event-free survival. Swiss Pediatric Oncology Group. J Pediatr Hematol Oncol 1995; 17(4):346-349.

Steiner H, Polliack A, Kimchi-Sarfaty C, Libster D, Fibach E, Rund D. Differences in rhodamine-123 efflux in B-type chronic lymphocytic leukemia suggest possible gender and stage variations in drug- resistance gene activity. Ann Hematol 1998; 76(5):189-194.

HIV / AIDS

Farzadegan H, Hoover DR, Astemborski J, Lyles CM, Margolick JB, Markham RB et al. Sex differences in HIV-1 viral load and progression to AIDS. Lancet 1998; 352(9139):1510-1514.

Long, EM, Martin, HI, Kreiss JK, Rainwater SMJ, et al. Gender differences in HIV-1 diversity at time of infection. Nature Medicine 2000; 6(1):71-75.

Ray SC, Quinn TC: Sex and the genetic diversity of HIV-1. Nature Medicine 2000; 6(1):23-25.

Immunology / Autoimmune Disease

Cannon JG, St Pierre BA. Gender differences in host defense mechanisms. J Psychiatr Res 1997; 31(1):99-113.

Kuslys T, Vishwanath BS, Frey FJ, Frey BM. Differences in phospholipase A2 activity between males and females and Asian Indians and Caucasians. Eur J Clin Invest 1996; 26(4):310-315.

Musculoskeletal Health

Rupich RC, Specker BL, Lieuw AF, Ho M. Gender and race differences in bone mass during infancy. Calcif Tissue Int 1996; 58(6):395-397.

Nephrology / Urology

Horn EP, Tucker MA, Lambert G, Silverman D, Zametkin D, Sinha R et al. A study of gender-based cytochrome P4501A2 variability: a possible mechanism for the male excess of bladder cancer. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 1995; 4(5):529-533.

Murray BM, Brown GP, Schoenl M. Interaction of gender and dietary protein on renal growth and the renal growth hormone-insulin-like growth factor axis. J Lab Clin Med 1998; 131(4):360-369.

Pain

Gear RW, Gordon NC, Heller PH, Paul S, Miaskowski C, Levine JD. Gender difference in analgesic response to the kappa-opioid pentazocine. Neurosci Lett 1996; 205(3):207-209.

Walker JS, Carmody JJ. Experimental pain in healthy human subjects: gender differences in nociception and in response to ibuprofen. Anesth Analg 1998; 86(6):1257-1262.

Pharmacology

Conference on Biologic and Molecular Mechanisms for Sex Differences in Pharmacokinetics, Pharmacodynamics and Pharmacogenetics - A Report. Office of Research on Women's Health, NIH, May 1999.

Smoking

Baldini EH., Strauss GM. Women and Lung Cancer: Waiting to Exhale. CHEST 1997; 112(4) Suppl :229S.-234S.

Zang EA, Wynder EL. Differences in lung cancer risk between men and women: examination of the evidence. J Natl Cancer Inst 1996; 88(3-4):183-192.

Violence

American Bar Association Commission on Domestic Violence - Are You Being Abused?

Ernst AA, Houry D, Nick TG and Weiss SJ. Domestic Violence Awareness and Prevalence in a First-year Medical School Class. Academic Emergency Medicine 1998; 5(1), 64-68.

Grisso JA, Schwarz DF, Nancy Hirschinger N, et al. Violent injuries Among Women in an Urban Area. The New England Journal of Medicine 1999; 341(25) 1899-1905.

Hazzard WR. Elder Abuse: Definitions and Implications for Medical Education. Academic Medicine 1995; 70(11): 979-981.

Jonassen JA, et al. The Effects of a Domestic Violence Interclerkship on the Knowledge, Attitudes, and Skills of Third-year Medical Students, Academic Medicine 1999; 74(7):822.

Jones AS, Gielen, AC, Campbell JC, et al. Annual and Lifetime Prevalence of Partner Abuse in a Sample of Female HMO Enrollees. Women's Health Issues 1999 9(6):295-305.

Kyriacou DN, Anglin D, Taliaferro E, et al. Risk Factors for Injury to Women from Domestic Violence The New England Journal of Medicine 1999; 341(25):1892-1898.

Short LM, et al. Evaluation of the Module on Domestic Violence at the UCLA School of Medicine, Academic Medicine 1997; 72(1):S75.

Sugg NK, Thompson RS, et al. Domestic Violence and Primary Care Attitudes, Practices, and Beliefs Archives Family Medicine 1999; 8:301-306.

Trust Talk on Domestic Violence: Information for Ohio Physicians (a CME publication) by the Ohio State Medical Association, 1999.

Zink, T. Should Children Be in the Room When the Mother Is Screened for Partner Violence? The Journal of Family Practice 2000; 49(2), 130-136.

Women's Health Textbooks

Goldman, Marlene B.; Hatch, Maureen C. (eds.)Women and Health San Diego : Academic Press, 2000. Available from Health Sciences and Langsam Libraries.

Wallis,Lila A.; Kasper,Anne (eds.) . Textbook of Women's Health. Philadelphia, PA : Lippincott-Raven, 1998. Available from Health Sciences Library.

Women's Health Library

Links

AAMC Women in Medicine Update - Quarterly Newsletter - Bookshelf & Briefcase section includes annotated bibliography.
Society for Women's Health Research - Just the Facts: Gender-Based Biology provides complete sex-based biology fact sheet with citations.